Those of you familiar with UNIX might know the commands du and ls. For those of you familiar with both UNIX and MS Windows, you might know that Windows has no good way of doing either of those two things. Which is why I have resurrected an old programming project of mine, DirLister.
I wrote DirLister early last year, when I came back to Windows from a Linux-based system, and needed a good way to instantly see what files were where. Basically, it writes a list of all the files in a directory (including those in subdirectories) into another file, which you can then scroll through. Although it’s a GUI tool, it does some of the work of the classic UNIX command line tools.
Recently I’ve downloaded BlitzMax, which is a programming language designed for building games with. It does, however, have a GUI module. It’s based upon BlitzBasic, which is a language I’m very familiar with (it was what I first learned to code with). DirLister was originally written in BlitzBasic.
So in an effort to learn the new language’s concepts, I’ve rewritten and expanded the original version. It now has several options, including one to list the file sizes as well as the names. So here, in all it’s glory, is the new version. May you (probably not) find it useful.